East Lampeter Township police Chief John Bowman and former detective Ronald Savage filed separate suits against Idint International, Camino Books and individual members of the company for Lisa Lambert's statements in her 2016 book, "Love, Murder and Corruption in Lancaster County: My Story." Lambert is not among those those named in the suit filed on Jan. 12, but plaintiffs seek damages from its co-author, Philadelphia attorney David Brown.

Lambert slashed the throat of 16-year-old Laurie Show in December 1991, an act which investigators said stemmed from a perceived romantic rivalry. Lambert was convicted of first-degree murder in 1992 and has been appealing her conviction in county, state and federal courts since then.

Lambert is serving her sentence in a state prison in Massachusetts. She is being held there as part of a 2007 settlement of a lawsuit she filed claiming she was sexually assaulted by staff at a Pennsylvania prison in the mid-1990s. A prison guard was convicted of indecently assaulting her in 1996.

In the book, Lambert accuses police officers of gang raping her prior to the murder and claims that police framed her in the killing. Bowman and Savage dispute that they committed the crimes of rape, perjury, tampering, false reports and myriad other charges by noting the fact they have never been convicted of crimes.

Savage's suit also references an FBI investigation that found there was no wrongdoing in the way police handled the case.